WOW I forgot how busy school is. Classes, reading, blogging, and squash makes up for action-packed days. I think I need a personal assistant! (Or maybe I just need to buy a planner…). Anyway, let’s move on to some food related things!

Before we get to some food from the past couple days, don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win a pint of Arctic Zero! Here’s the link to the giveaway, and here’s the link to yesterday’s post, which gives my review of Arctic Zero plus a delicious recipe! (Milkshakes, anyone?!)

Peanut Butter + Other Eats

Alright, back to food things! Now that I’m back at school, I no longer buy my own peanut butter, which means that I am at the mercy of those who have all the power. (Having control over the food is a powerful position!). In any case, the powers that be tend to always buy Skippy peanut butter.

To the untrained peanut-butterer (<– is that a word??), Skippy is what normal peanut butter tastes like! However, over the years I have come to appreciate pure, natural peanut butter, and find Skippy too sugary.

I had 3 of these for breakfast this morning, plus a small protein shake (unpictured), and some of Wawa’s Pumpkin Spice coffee!

Topped off with some non-dairy Hazelnut creamer and a little skim milk, this coffee tastes almost like a pumpkin spice latte 🙂

Lunch

The other day I pretty good lunch the other day of spinach salad with chicken, edamame, red cabbage, and sliced almonds, chicken kabobs, and breaded eggplant.

Today lunch was a couple hardboiled eggs, quinoa salad with cucumbers, tomatoes and edamame, kale salad with feta, mozzarella, edamame, chicken, and purple cabbage, and cottage cheese on the side. I couldn’t resist adding a little mac and cheese to my container plate at the last second. (I ate most of it before snapping the picture).

I also threw a little extra edamame into the mix, as well as a few candied walnuts.

Dinner

Dinner last night was flank steak, polenta (which I left to the side), roasted portobello mushroom with white beans, and roasted vegetables (unpictured).

Well that sums up some of my recent eats from the past few days! I’ve got to run off to class now, have a great rest of your Wednesday, and thanks to Jenn for hosting What I Ate Wednesday! Be sure to check out her blog, Peas and Crayons for some more WIAW posts!

Questions:

What brand of peanut butter (or other nut butter) do you prefer? Do you have a preference?

I might have to dedicate an entire post to peanut butter, (and nut butter in general), because I could talk about this topic for days on end.

It is Wednesday, so I’m going to link up with Jenn for What I Ate Wednesday (WIAW), and share some of my latest meals ‘n’ things. Word has it you guys like seeing pictures of food, so let’s get to it!

This week’s edition ofWIAW is Back to School themed, since today is my last first day of classes! (Whaaaaaat!)

On Monday night I went to a spin class with Hadley, and afterwards grabbed dinner from Olives. I ordered a Thai kale chicken salad with soy vinaigrette. There were tons of toppings, including water chestnuts, edamame, and cashews. Gotta love flavourful plentiful salads!

Olives is a huge student favourite at Princeton, mostly because it offers sandwiches, salads, and hot entrees that can be customized and adapted however you want. Plus, the staff is super friendly, and will remember you, so it really feels like a family environment.

And now I’m currently sipping an iced Americano while blogging from Small World, a local coffee shop just off campus.

Ice ice baby

Yumz yumz yumz.

Workout

It’s been forever since I’ve been to yoga, so today at noon I’m going to go to a vinyasa yoga class! I’m stoked to see if my new pushup ability will translate to a better chaturanga. Here’s hoping!

I’m also teaching two 30 minute spin classes tonight, which I’m pretty excited about. I haven’t taught all summer, which was a nice break, but I’m ready to put some of the tips I picked up from other instructors into my own routine!

Questions:

Have you ever tried Paleokrunch granola?

What’s new for you this September? Starting classes, a new job, or anything?